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2017- Raj participated in Germany Today delegation
2018 (April)- Visit to UA Ruhr North America Headquarters
Raj Mehta, Jenni Kim Sutmoller, Todd Herzog, Nora Burke Wagner, Oxana Prokhorova
2018 (October)- Delegation to UA Ruhr with
Provost Kristi Nelson, Sr. Vice Provost Gigi Escoe, Vice Provost Raj Mehta, Mechanical Engineering Dept Head Jay Kim, Director of International Strategic Partnerships Jenni Kim Sutmoller
2019 (September) – Urban Design students participating in Future of My City Project, with honorable mentions.
2019 (November) - 2 UA Ruhr faculty participated in International Engineering Education Colloquium and 4 representatives in Delegation Visit to UC
Peter Rosenbaum, executive director of the UAR New York office; the dean of studies from the engineering faculty at Duisburg-Essen; a member of the engineering faculty from RU Bochum; and a faculty member from TU Dortmund in charge of innovation curriculum.
2020- UC-UARuhr strategic partnership formalized with ICA
2022- Art as a Catalyst for Global Understanding: Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium began
2022 (September)– Priya Nayar, Executive Direcvtor of UA Ruhr visits UC and meets with UC International, 1819 Innovation Hub, DAAP, and CEAS.
2022 (September)- Traveling conference on metropolitan research was hosted in 2022 at UC
2023 (October)- What We Brought With Us exhibition at UC’s Meyers Gallery & Taft Research Center’s “Humanities in Exile” symposium & workshop
Dr. Kader Konuk and Dr. Vanessa Agnew of Academy in Exile, Annika Roux, Fatemah Rezeai, Priya Nayar attended from UA Ruhr
Sponsored by: UCI, Taft Research Center, DAAP School of Art, UC Law, School of Public and International Affairs, UC-German Studies Program, Academy in Exile, University of Duisburg-Essen, Mellon Foundation, Volkswagen Stiftung
*Garden of Refuge collaboration at UC and TUD idea was formed
2023-What We Brought with Us exhibition at Goethe Institute USA, New York, NY
2023- UC and TU Dortmund applied and got awarded a joint International Virtual Academic Collaboration grant from DAAD. The proposed project was in electrical and computer engineering.
2024- UC Board of Trustees Approval of Garden of Refuge name and space adjacent to Old Chemistry site
2025- Garden under construction
2025- Garden of Refuge Graduate Fellowship instituted
2026- Grand Opening/Ribbon Cutting and inaugural Garden of Refuge Symposium